In this paper we describe a channel-based exogenous coordination language, called Reo, and discuss its application to multi-agent systems. Reo supports a specific notion of compo...
: Man-machine systems have several desirable properties, as to user friendliness, reliability, safety, security or other global system attributes. The potential for the lack, or br...
Multiple-Phased Systems, whose operational life can be partitioned in a set of disjoint periods, called “phases”, include several classes of systems such as Phased Mission Sys...
Andrea Bondavalli, Ivan Mura, Silvano Chiaradonna,...
In this paper we show how file sharing peer to peer systems can be modeled by hybrid systems with a continuous part corresponding to a fluid limit of files and a discrete part c...
We propose a novel method to measure the dependability of journaling file systems. In our approach, we build models of how journaling file systems must behave under different jo...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Rem...